As a note on the Prince squadron: it does have 16 AP with 8 of them being elite. Not bad as a late game boarders descending out of the sky! Of course this is after saturating the ocean with 20AD mines that can be blown up whenever we want do to magnetic mines (or whatever it's called now)!

I'm fairly new to Dystopian wars. I started playing last year and I've been reading the forums for awhile now. I've seen people post that our Dread is the best but I've had some trouble with the CoA dread in my last few games. I've only really played against it once but it destroyed in that game. It was a sort of unusual game because it was a long narrow table with no cover so that might be the reason it was so good. During that game I only put a single point of damage on with my hawks mine in the last move of the game. I focused all of my dread's fire that I could at it. I was moving forward to begin with but then i turned side ways but by that point I was link five guns for five dice at range band one.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Does anyone have any advice for taking it out? The person I was playing is going to be my main opponent once we get started playing more often.

I do like the Idea of the British getting some sort of massive mobile fortress or a bulldog robot. I also thought that, in keeping with the bird theme for the Hawk and eagle, you could have a small flying robot bird with Rb1 fore guns and the pack hunter for a assaults (forgot the name). That was before the freedom came out though.

I too wish that the British had a giant robot but I also have trouble of thinking of what that would be like for the British. It just doesn't seem right for them. "We don't need robots! Send the Landship!"

Indeed. I may see if I can proxy some merlins and try an all air fleet. My group tends to be rather lax about proxying.
I played a game yesterday with a few of the people at my club who don't really know the rules yet. We did 600 points. I had a dread, 2 vanguards, 4 attackers and 2 hawks. I was allied with the FSA and the had similar. (cruisers instead of vanguards)
The other side was PE and CoA
We started late and had end so weonlu got to turns in but my hawks preformes fairly well. I flew them over a frigate rush and laid mines in front. They managed to come out of a broadside attack by a pair of pfilchts unharmed.

I have't played many games with them but when I did I flew them at his dread linking torpedoes and then non linked bombing.
I think others use them to hunt small because they are medium but not capital so they it on 4,5,6.

From what I've read the gunship is the safest option. The Tribal and Vanguard both work but they require more delicate tactics and maneuvering. However I'm a firm believer that if you want to use a unit you can make it work. However, the gunship is probably your best choice.
You have to have at least 1 squadron of small, medium, and large/massive